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The hidden record of Wall Block and the White House comes down to an individual, powerful, quintessentially American strategy: self confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen enhancements over the past three decades, discovered how to create it. Until August 2007, when that self confidence finally started out to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind says the storyplot of what took place next, as Wall membrane Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in "a new time of responsibility". It is a story that comes after the voyage of Barack Obama, who increased as the country fell, and offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency. Wall Street found that straying from long-standing ideas of transparency, accountability, and good dealing exposed a path to stunning income. Obama's willpower to change that pattern was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Block collapsed through the fall of any election season and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding to a national crisis. But as he stood on the level in Grant Recreation area, a shudder went through Barack Obama. He'd will have to control Washington, tame New York, and save the market in the first proper management job of his life. The new leader bounded himself with a team of seasoned players - like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner - who possessed served a different president in a different time. As the country's crises deepened, Obama's deputies often dismissed the president's decisions - "to protect him from himself" - while they fought to assume control of an rudderless White House. Bitter disputes - between women and men, coverage and politics - ruled your day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by occasions as, season to season, Obama battled to grow into the world's toughest job and, in desperation, manage his own administration. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind introduces readers to an ensemble cast, from the titans of high finance to a new technology of reformers, from petulant congressmen and acerbic lobbyists to a tight circle of White House advisers - and, eventually, to the leader himself, as you've never before seen him. Predicated on hundreds of interviews and filled up with piercing insights and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into emphasis the collusion and turmoil between the nation's two capitals - New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of open public goal - in defining self confidence and, in doing so, charting America's future.
